page_title: Charles Leslie (nonjuror)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Leslie (nonjuror) / Life
caption_attribution_description: Castle Leslie, 2006
context_page_description: Charles Leslie was a former Church of Ireland priest who became a leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. One of a small number of Irish Protestants to actively support the Stuarts after 1688, he is best remembered today for his role in publicising the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe.
context_section_description: Charles Leslie was the sixth son and one of eight surviving children of John Leslie (1571-1671) and Katherine Conyngham (or Cunningham), daughter  of Dr. Alexander Cunningham,  Dean of Raphoe. John was originally from Stuartfield or Crichie, in Scotland; from 1628-1633, he was bishop of the Isles, a diocese in the Church of Scotland and a member of the Scottish Privy Council. In 1633, he moved to Ireland and appointed Church of Ireland bishop of Raphoe, then bishop Clogher from 1661 until his death in 1671.
  Born on 27 July 1650 in Dublin, Charles was allegedly named after the executed Charles I and educated at Enniskillen school and Trinity College, Dublin. After his father died at the age of 100 in 1671, he studied law in London before changing career and being ordained as an Anglican priest in 1681. Shortly afterwards, he returned to the family estate at Glaslough in County Monaghan and married Jane Griffith; they had a daughter, Vinigar Jane who appears to have died young and two sons, Robert (1683-1744) and Henry who were also Jacobites and spent time in exile.
caption: Castle Leslie, the family estate in Glaslough
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